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Quotes About Fear

I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.
~ Sara Zarr
Happiness is a risk. If you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
For her, the conflict was a theological problem, a serious error on the part of her fellow Christians. "There is a new and troublesome fear of the imagination - though without it, how can anyone believe in the Incarnation, the Power that created all of the galaxies willingly limiting itself to be one of us for love for us! And this fear is expressing itself in a new kind of book burning and witch-hunting.
~ Sarah Arthur
Fear can be your friend. It tells you when to run and when to hide. The trick is that after you've run and hid, you have to tell your fear thank you very much, you're fine now, come back later.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
My manly strength will not allow me to choose a less unyielding material," Matt said. "I have rocks for muscles. You fear my strength.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
She was beginning to understand why so few people even tried monster racing. Constant terror is a bit of a distraction
~ Sarah Beth Durst
It's not wrong to ask questions. And if the prime minister is afraid of the answer, maybe that means you asked the right question. And maybe it means you need to ask more.»
~ Sarah Beth Durst
People do lots of things all the time that aren't guaranteed safe. They decide it's worth the risk.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
Mama, I'm scared." "That's good. Fear can be your friend. It tells you when to run and when to hide. The trick is that after you've run and hid, you have to tell your fear thank you very much, you're fine now, come back later.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.
~ Michael Herr
Our fear leads us to say no all the time.
~ Mike Birbiglia
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
~ Albert Ellis
In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
~ Ai Weiwei
I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
~ Ai Weiwei
Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a little duller each time.
~ Alex Katz
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
~ Aristotle
I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.
~ Daniel Johns
It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.
~ Dennis Miller
I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.
~ Edmund Hillary
The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
~ Amy Hempel
I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
~ Lorrie Moore
Living in fear is just another way of dying before your time.
~ Mike Cooley
I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.
~ Paul Kane
Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!
~ Peter Tork